Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally
New Kirkwood Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fort Wayne
Tract 18003980001 · Allen County, IN · pop 841 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
18003980001 is a census tract in the New Kirkwood Park area of Fort Wayne, IN. It scores 4.6/10 for landlords. It is home to 841 residents. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.
Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0%
Stable renters 100%
Owners 0%
Tract context
Occupied units4
Renter share100.0%
SVI overall0.14
Poverty rate100.0%
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
77
th percentile
High
Within county
93
th percentile
Very High
Within state
78
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.1181, -85.1102 · click any tract to drill in
Why New Kirkwood Park scores 4.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Fort Wayne
3.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.4
State political climate
Indiana legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
100.0% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Fort Wayne
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Fort Wayne
1.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Fort Wayne
2.0
How New Kirkwood Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 14
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 45%Socioeconomic
- 0%Household composition
- 44%Racial/ethnic minority
- 38%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 1%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 1Total filings over 1 yrs
- 33.33%Avg annual filing rate
- 33.3%Peak (2017)
- 1Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within New Kirkwood Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 24.9%Housing insecurity
- 24.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 46.3%Food insecurity
- 39.8%SNAP enrollment
- 30.2%Transit barriers
- 14.3%No health insurance
- 34.7%Frequent mental distress
- 48.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in New Kirkwood Park
Food insecurity runs 46.3% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 100%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
This is renter territory: 100% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 24.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
The filing record is not thin: 1 evictions over 1 years of observation. It sits 0.9 points above the Allen County average of 3.7. Filings peaked in 2017 at 33.3% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 33.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Social vulnerability reads 2.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 18003980001
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18003980001?
Census tract 18003980001 in the New Kirkwood Park neighborhood scores 4.6/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the poverty rate in tract 18003980001?
100.0% of residents in tract 18003980001 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 841.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 18003980001?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 14th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 45th, household 0th, minority 44th, housing 38th.
Q4
Is tract 18003980001 considered part of New Kirkwood Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18003980001 fall within New Kirkwood Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18003980001?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 18003980001 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 33.33% of renter households, peaking at 33.3% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 18003980001 struggle to pay rent?
About 24.9% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 24.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 18003980001 compare to Fort Wayne overall?
Tract 18003980001 scores 4.6/10, higher than the parent city of Fort Wayne at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Fort Wayne eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 18003980001 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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